Companies are slowly moving in that direction, except doing it worse in most cases (i.e. cheaply)

honestly one of the reasons I use a macbook is because I interned for a tech company that handed out macbooks as standard-issue laptops.

mac mini's are pretty cheap for that purpose. And besides, just because you personally don't use a platform doesn't stop you from making money from people who do.

I've got a framework 13. It's not better than a Macbook except in terms of user-serviceability.

• It's hot and loud (hopefully the AMD upgrade will fix this)
• Battery life is atrocious (hoping AMD and battery upgrade will fix this)
• Trackpad isn't as good (piano hinge, and the coating has more friction.)
• fewer ports(!) (limited to 4 expansion cards)
• sleep is broken (modern standby, ugh. S3 exists on the 11th gen model but it's no better than s2idle. I'll have to see if the AMD one is any better)
• Keyboard has bigger keys than I'd like, and while the key feel is pretty nice, it's also heaver than any macbook I've used. Also, the layout is standard laptop garbage. The only reason the layout works on a macbook is because of macos's shortcuts. On a PC I want a full PC keyboard like we had on 2011 ThinkPads.

That said, I do really like the laptop. I just find myself reaching for my macbook especially due to the issue with battery life.

Good luck getting top dollar for an activation locked device. If you paid full price for one of those, you got scammed.

The M1 design is very similar to the SoC in your phone. The RAM is literally soldered on top of the CPU.

I'd say $400 (minus whatever subsidies from your carrier) is the minimum I'd spend on a new smartphone. Could also get an iPhone 12 or something for a bit more.

Point is, iPhones are more affordable than people claim they are, especially in the US. Can't speak for other places where they might be marked up or have high import tax.

I have a Framework, and I love it. The trackpad isn't as good as a MacBook's.

It's because the person who's saying this is likely buying from another company doing the same thing, except worse, I'd argue.

Anti-theft, which is a dual-edged sword.

Activation lock prevents the device from functioning without the consent of the owner, but if the owner is locked out of their iCloud account, the device is a brick.

Serializing components has the side effect of preventing activation locked devices from being harvested for parts. Unfortunately, this also means that perfectly working parts cannot be used to repair other iPhones.

It's very hard to walk that fine line between anti-theft and repair. The way Apple is doing it definitely seems to be with an anti-third-party-repair goal, though.

I personally think activation lock is fine, but serializing components is not.

A lot of people who talk about how bad Apple laptops are ignore how the rest of the industry is basically moving towards Apple's design language, but doing it cheaply. If you hate apple, you'll hate HP even more.

iPhones tend to be more affordable in the US than in other places in the world. An iPhone SE is only $400, and used iPhones aren't that expensive.